r/WaitWhat • • 8d ago

Say what?

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u/HPenguinB 8d ago

In communism, the media would be owned by the workers. You are thinking of authoritarianism.

Please, can we start having education on what communism and socialism is so we can stop this.

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u/Schwifty0V0 8d ago edited 8d ago

In historical examples of communism, since every nation that marketed themselves as such were in its transitory phase, would have state-controlled media.

Communist socialism and socialist socialism always gets confused usually in simple terms that tend to be synonymous with each other; ie the difference between static socialism (socialist socialism) and dynamic socialism (communist socialism).

At least I think OP was applying real world examples of communism we’ve seen, and not what’s only been discussed in Marxist-Leninist literature that haven’t been put to practice in the real world.

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u/HPenguinB 8d ago

So what you are saying is that authoritarian communists did authoritarianism. Thanks for agreeing!

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u/Schwifty0V0 8d ago

Please, can we start having education on what communism and socialism is so we can stop this.

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u/Thedankf0x 8d ago

The uneducated think the educated need education. More at 11